Galileo 1200x Power Microscope -

Customer Reviews:

Not As Good As Expected
This is not the best Microscope I have seen and really it is just a toy.
The included projector is innovative, but useless & the quality of the images is not that great.

If you are looking for a nice Microscope for your kids (like mine who is intrigued by such items) spend more money on something decent.
--2006-11-03

Too bad. Never buy this
I bought this microscope with so much enthusiasm, hoping to see common things like hair, leaf, flower, blood drop, etc through it. But this microscope is a huge disappointment.

It has three magnification levels which you select by rotating the eye piece. All three of them are horrible in quality. Even in the lowest magnification setting its too hard to bring the object to focus. Even after an hour of patience and trial and errors, I could still not focus it on anything. The medium and higher magnification levels are not even to be tried as they are horribly poor.

The built in light and project system is a joke. Its of absolutely no use as it does not work even a tiny bit.

Do yourself a favor and never buy this piece
--2006-09-15

Not even for the price
If you want to turn your kids off of science at a young age this is perfect for you. Focusing actually moves the entire unit and it is frustrating trying to get any semblance of focus. When you do get it focused, you can only ask yourself "Is this it?". It's like looking through several layers of saran wrap at something even when focused. I had no luck using the projector to see if it improved any. The whole product just feels cheap and flimsy, even for the price.
--2006-08-16

It okay
It's okay. Wasn't terribly impressed. The regular retail price would have been a rip-off. Glad I got it 60% off.
--2006-08-14

Projector hood doesn't function correctly.
I bought this item to project larger pictures of coins to detirmine if there were defects not visible to the naked eye. I can view a coin fine through the eye piece by adding light to the surface. I cannot project anything or see anything in the projector hood. I don't know if mine is just defective or what, but, there appears to be no available web site to ask questions. Maybe it can be returned but if you are looking for this feature in a cheap plastic microscope I would pass this one up.

--2006-06-21

Galileo 1200x Power Microscope

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